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... The drop in popularity occurred after it was revealed that LDP factions and the individual parliamentarians associated with them had failed to report all revenues from ticket sales at fundraising events. The slush fund, estimated to be millions of dollars, was used for political purposes, violating the Public Funds Control Law. The Public Prosecutors Office has launched investigations into the LDP’s largest and most influential faction, the Seiwakai, commonly referred to as the Abe faction. Reports suggest that four other major factions, including the one led by Kishida, might also be implicated. Kishida has replaced four key cabinet ministers...

A recent alleged death threat against pro-life activists indicates that Jane’s Revenge — the group that has claimed responsibility for several violent attacks against pregnancy centers and pro-life organizations throughout the nation — doesn’t just support the killing of unborn children but is willing to “shoot up” those working against their evil and dystopian dream.On Saturday, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) members and other Nebraskan pro-life activists reported finding a death threat attributed to Jane’s Revenge posted to the door of the St. John Paul II Newman Center near the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Scott Campus. The pro-lifers were gathering at...

The iconic card game UNO has partnered with the It Gets Better Project on a version called Play with Pride to support LGBTQ+ youth. “UNO’s mission is to bring people together, and through the UNO Play with Pride deck, the brand is celebrating inclusivity with the LGBTQ+ community with this Pride edition of UNO. Additionally, Mattel has donated $50,000 to the It Gets Better Project in support of their initiatives supporting LGBTQ+ youth and will be a partner of the It Gets Better Project digital pride festival in late June.” The new deck is available nationwide only at Target and...

[I begin] with the story of a series of Socialist scholars conferences that Barack Obama attended when he lived in New York City between the years 1983 and 1985. And when I finally reconstructed what had gone on at these Socialist conferences that Barack Obama attended, I truly was amazed because what I saw was a kind of map of Barack Obama’s entire subsequent political career. It was at this Socialist conferences in New York in the mid-’80s that Barack Obama encountered the groups, the strategies, and the mentors who would guide him throughout his entire political career. [T]hese Socialist...

Have you ever heard of a group called UNO of Chicago? No, not the deep dish pizza chain; the Left-wing community organizing outfit. How about the Midwest Academy? Does the name James Cone ring a bell? If you’re like most Americans – including many who consider themselves fairly well informed about President Obama’s background and associations – you’re probably drawing a blank on all three questions. That’s why Stanley Kurtz’s new book, Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, is so important. The key word in the title is “untold.” Kurtz, a respected investigative journalist and public...

The Intergovernmental Cultural Climate Change Panel (ICCCP) declared its support for the recent UN announcement that all cultures are equally valid. Expanding on the resolution the group declared the rights of people are now culturally defined, rather than being based on any universal notion or concept. They suggest the term "human rights" is therefore both outmoded and racist as it would impose value for human life which some cultures don't accept. They recommended the term "multi-cultural peoples' rights" be used instead. "We take the announcement to mean our practices of torture, vendetta, and suppression of women and minorities dating back...

Decorated U.S. Army veteran Lars Stiaes was just beginning to collect the fruits of his sacrifice.After serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan that ended when he was injured about a year ago, the 22-year-old New Orleans man came home to study marketing and live in the dorms at the University of New Orleans. He used his military benefits to pay for his housing and education, his family said. But Wednesday evening, someone dashed his hopes for the future. A person botched an attempt to rob Stiaes and fatally shot him instead, relatives said.Stiaes was wounded about 8 p.m. near...

[Below is a talk given by Stanley Kurtz at the Wednesday Morning Club on January 5, 2011.] David Horowitz: It’s been 20 years with the Center trying to tell conservatives that these people are not liberals, that they are leftists and if their dreams are fulfilled they will destroy the United States, and very, very dangerous people. And while conservatives have given me support and given our Center support, they never quite got into their system what I think is the appropriate view of our opponents in these battles. Conservatives, as you’ve probably heard me say, are far too decent...

Matthew "Gideon" Smith, 29, was booked with two counts of battery on a police officer and one count of resisting arrest, police said. The graduate student was arrested after police sprayed him with mace, according to his girlfriend, Carmen Torres. Share Undergraduate student Peter Reed was also handcuffed and is expected to be booked with similar felony counts. But as of late Wednesday, he had not been processed into Orleans Parish Prison, according to jail records. Because each offense is a felony, both men were turned over to the New Orleans Police Department, UNO Chancellor Tim Ryan said in an...

The announcement by the United Nations this week that it will license the minting of silver and gold bullion coins bearing the UN logo may be the button that launches metal prices into orbit. In its wide-ranging report this fall, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) stated that the system of currencies and international banking practices within today’s economies were inadequate, and responsible for the present economic crisis. The report advocates that the present monetary system, wherein the dollar acts as the global reserve currency be re-examined “with urgency”. The UNCTAD Report was the first time a major...

"Removal of Zelaya was constitutional": UN Submitted by Editorial Hond ... on Tue, 13/10/2009 - 18:22. UN experts concluded that there was no coup in Honduras The study of the crisis in Honduras coincided with that conducted by the Library of Congress *** The study of the political crisis in Honduras was endorsed with official information received by the UN experts in the country visit last week coincided with the foreign ministers of the OAS. Washington, USA. A study by the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Organization (UNO) on the causes of the crisis in Honduras, concluded...

One Saturday the President attended and spoke at the commencement ceremonies for the Greensburg High School graduating class of 2008.Pray for President Bush -- Day 2790 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem The First Lady welcomed the Westminster Kennel Club's 2008 Best in Show winner to the White House today. Today before leaving for her daugher Jenna's wedding in Crawford this weekend the First Lady made a statement about the terrible tragedy caused by Cyclone Nargis in Burma. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

The 2008 National Motorcycle Show in Toronto has always been heavily influenced by the American V-twin crowd and highlights some of the area's top custom builders who have on display a fine array of one-off custom machines. This year's show, however, had one very unusual one-off custom, the Uno. The orange and grey coloured Uno made its first public appearance balanced on its two side-by-side wheels and its footpegs. Looking more like it should have been ridden by George Jetson as he pulled up to his space platform, it looked out of place amid the other custom creations in...

Best in show TRIBUNE-REVIEW By: Salena Zito In the most significant stunner of the evening, Uno the beagle won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this evening at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Uno’s victory is considered a moral victory; he broke canine breed lines by becoming the first beagle to ever win best in show at

NEW YORK (Feb. 12) - Uno the beagle turned Madison Square Garden into his own big, green backyard. He barked and bayed. He nipped at a newly printed sign. He tried to grab his leash. He took a flying leap at a piece of filet mignon. "Snoopy would be proud," handler Aaron Wilkerson said Monday. "He was being his merry little hound self." He also did something out of character: He became the first beagle to win the hound group at the Westminster Kennel Club show since 1939 — that's 483 years, in dog years. America's top dog competition has...

The German navy will soon be stationed off the coast of Lebanon. That's a development sure to have an impact on Arab perceptions of Germany, which is shifting from being a widely respected observer in the region to actively intervening in the Arab-Israeli conflict. But can Berlin hold Arab sympathies while clearly committing itself to protecting Israel? Germany has a lot of friends in Beirut. During the soccer World Cup two months ago, the Lebanese cheered for the German team, the favorite of many, right up until the semi-finals, when Germany lost to Italy. Three days after the final, war...

CHICAGO -- Police said a quarrel over parlor games prompted a woman to fatally stab her boyfriend in the chest last week. Patrice Black, 37, was scheduled for a preliminary hearing Monday on a charge of first-degree murder. Black, is accused of stabbing her boyfriend of five years, Allen McDowell, 37, in the chest with a steak knife during a quarrel over the games of Monopoly and Uno, Assistant State's Attorney Mark Hitt said. Black was being held on $500,000 bond. While at home Thursday night with her 14-year-old daughter and boyfriend, Black asked McDowell if he would play the...

One of the next big chapters in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal will involve the family of the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, whose son turns out to have been receiving payments as recently as early this year from a key contractor in the oil-for-food program. The secretary-general's son, Kojo Annan, was previously reported to have worked for a Swiss-based company called Cotecna Inspection Services SA, which from 1998-2003 held a lucrative contract with the U.N. to monitor goods arriving in Saddam Hussein's Iraq under the oil-for-food program. But investigators are now looking into new information suggesting that the younger Annan received...

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Following is the text of a letter that was sent yesterday by Naji Sabri, Iraq's minister of foreign affairs, to Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing the return of United Nations weapons inspectors without conditions: I have the honor to refer to the series of discussions held between Your Excellency and the Government of the Republic of Iraq on the implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions on the question of Iraq, which took place in New York on 7 March and 2 May and in Vienna on 4 July 2002, as well as the talks which were held in your office...